General

Artists' Information

Artist Organizations

Research Sites

ImageMovementSound Festivals
http://www.imsfestival.org/

For eleven years the ImageMovementSound festivals have presented multiple exhibitions featuring premieres of innovative, collaboratively conceived and realized multimedia art works involving the integration of two or more art forms such as: motion picture, graphic art, dance, music, painting, photography, installation art, performance art, theater, and other arts.

These works are collaborations by students and faculty at Rochester Institute of Technology (motion image makers), the Eastman School of Music (composers and performers), the Dance Department at SUNY College at Brockport (choreographers and dancers), and other local colleges in the Rochester area. Each year the IMS festival begins in the fall with a Call Meeting of artists from the schools and the Rochester community, and then culminates in performances in the spring at multiple venue sites. Although this is largely an extra curricular activity for student participants, many are able to receive academic credit for their work on the IMS projects at their home college.

Students may also register in the Image-Movement Music course, which is offered during the fall quarter at RIT and Eastman to learn about the collaborative process and to sample image, music and dance art forms within a collaborative production experience. Students who take this course will often participate in the IMS Festival, which is a separate activity.

Refer to the above link for more information about IMS, including a history of the IMS festivals and links to past festival web sites.

SOFA's Visiting Artists and Lecturers Program
http://www.rit.edu/~sofa/mysofa/val/index.htm

The goal of the Visiting Artists and Lecturers Program in the School of Film and Animation at RIT has been to enhance RIT students' exposure to and experience of the motion picture medium by presenting diverse, exemplary and unique international artists and lecturers in film and video media, animation, computer animation, multimedia, independent and experimental formats, and historical, contemporary and professional perspectives.

The Visiting Artists and Lecturers Program is a non-classroom activity that aspires to engage students intellectually, to inspire them as creative artists, to expose them to artistic career models, and to provide practical interactive environments and workshops that involve personal dialogue and hands-on experience.